The 1969 Boss 302 Mustang was not a styling exercise or a marketing package. It was a purpose-built weapon aimed squarely at the SCCA Trans-American Sedan Championship, where Ford wanted to beat ...

Most gearheads would agree that 1969 and 1970 were the peak of the true muscle car era, the apex of horsepower, torque, and cubic-inch piston wars. Competition on the street was fueled by fierce ...

The 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator arrived late in the model year, yet it managed to stand apart in a crowded muscle field by wrapping serious hardware in an unusually polished, almost European sense ...

Officials of MCACN seemed to agree. They were impressed enough to award the Boss 302s assembled by ringleader Bob Perkins (with help from friends Jim Cunningham and Rick Campbell) with the ...

The racing series had under- and over-2.0-liter classes, with all of the V-8-powered American iron running in the latter, which allowed displacements of up to 5.0 liters. Those were exciting times, on ...

The year was 1969, and the muscle car era delivered some of the best factory stock performance ever. A rivalry that began just a few years prior with the launch of the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Sport ...

The Mercury Cougar is like a "sneaky-hot" woman. You almost couldn’t tell just how attractive she was, until you started spending more time with her. Same goes for the first-generation Cougar, as long ...

Aaron, a 27-year automotive technician and lifelong car enthusiast, attended Specs Howard School of Media Arts and learned the fundamentals of digital video and editing, shot composition and writing.